Blue Knights ~ Arrow of the Love of God

This was our October meeting.  Another great time!  Doodlebug was a bit more of a handful than last time, but I think it's important for him to get out too and make friends with these kids.  Did I mention that we're doing this with 2 other families from our homeschool group???

Tonight we learned about St. Sebastian.  They colored, had a talk, a bible verse, then they decorated arrows!  Then they went outside for an arrow toss (foam arrows!), then had a snack and free play.

These are the arrows that they made

We all decided to go ahead and get the breastplate, capes and badges that go with the program.  We just decided recently to do this, so we're still working on last month's badge requirements.  Those should be done in the next week and we'll get started on this month's requirements.  I even got one for Doodlebug.  I figured he would feel a bit majorly left out if he didn't have one :)

The patches will be added as in the top picture.  There's a different set of patches for each year.  They recently added year 5.

These are the patches for year 1.

We host the meeting next month here!  Our theme ~ The Spear of the Fear of God!

Blue Knights Meeting ~ The Shield of Faith

I've had the pictures of this meeting in the camera for a while.  So, I finally decided to get them put up :)

The boys had a great time at their first Blue Knights meeting!  I KNEW that if I left Doodlebug home and took the older boys with me he would pitch the biggest fit, so I took him.  Didn't regret it a bit!  He had a blast.  Our hosts were nice enough to make him his own coloring page (St. Peter, the saint selected for this meeting) and got him something to paint while the others were painting their shields.

They started out coloring, them moved onto scripture and prayers and a discussion of faith.  They demonstrated faith (in another person) by falling backward and being caught (by one of the dads, not each other :).  Then they painted their shields, did an outside activity, had a snack and played for a while.  They had so much fun!!!!

The shields needed a second coat when we got home.  It took us a while with Velcro Boy's crazy schedule, but we finally got them done!

 Velcro Boy...

The Professor

They're really looking forward to the next meeting...The Arrow of the Love of God!